Apache Kafka

126 Pages·2013·2.64 MB·English

by  Garg

Table of Contents
Apache Kafka
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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What this book covers
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Conventions
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Errata
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1. Introducing Kafka
Need for Kafka
Few Kafka usages
Summary
2. Installing Kafka
Installing Kafka
Downloading Kafka
Installing the prerequisites
Installing Java 1.6 or later
Building Kafka
Summary
3. Setting up the Kafka Cluster
Single node – single broker cluster
Starting the ZooKeeper server
Starting the Kafka broker
Creating a Kafka topic
Starting a producer for sending messages
Starting a consumer for consuming messages
Single node – multiple broker cluster
Starting ZooKeeper
Starting the Kafka broker
Creating a Kafka topic
Starting a producer for sending messages
Starting a consumer for consuming messages
Multiple node – multiple broker cluster
Kafka broker property list
Summary
4. Kafka Design
Kafka design fundamentals
Message compression in Kafka
Cluster mirroring in Kafka
Replication in Kafka
Summary
5. Writing Producers
The Java producer API
Simple Java producer
Importing classes
Defining properties
Building the message and sending it
Creating a simple Java producer with message partitioning
Importing classes
Defining properties
Implementing the Partitioner class
Building the message and sending it
The Kafka producer property list
Summary
6. Writing Consumers
Java consumer API
High-level consumer API
Simple consumer API
Simple high-level Java consumer
Importing classes
Defining properties
Reading messages from a topic and printing them
Multithreaded consumer for multipartition topics
Importing classes
Defining properties
Reading the message from threads and printing it
Kafka consumer property list
Summary
7. Kafka Integrations
Kafka integration with Storm
Introduction to Storm
Integrating Storm
Kafka integration with Hadoop
Introduction to Hadoop
Integrating Hadoop
Hadoop producer
Hadoop consumer
Summary
8. Kafka Tools
Kafka administration tools
Kafka topic tools
Kafka replication tools
Integration with other tools
Kafka performance testing
Summary
Index
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
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Author
Nishant Garg
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About the Author
Nishant Garg is a Technical Architect with more than 13 years'
experience in various technologies such as Java Enterprise Edition,
Spring, Hibernate, Hadoop, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, Spark, Kafka,
Storm, Mahout, and Solr/Lucene; NoSQL databases such as MongoDB,
CouchDB, HBase and Cassandra, and MPP Databases such as
GreenPlum and Vertica.
He has attained his M.S. in Software Systems from Birla Institute of
Technology and Science, Pilani, India, and is currently a part of Big Data
R&D team in innovation labs at Impetus Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
Nishant has enjoyed working with recognizable names in IT services and
financial industries, employing full software lifecycle methodologies such
as Agile and SCRUM. He has also undertaken many speaking
engagements on Big Data technologies.
I would like to thank my parents (Sh. Vishnu Murti Garg and Smt.
Vimla Garg) for their continuous encouragement and motivation
throughout my life. I would also like to thank my wife (Himani) and my
kids (Nitigya and Darsh) for their never-ending support, which keeps
me going.
Finally, I would like to thank Vineet Tyagi—AVP and Head of
Innovation Labs, Impetus—and Dr. Vijay—Director of Technology,
Innovation Labs, Impetus—for having faith in me and giving me an
opportunity to write.
About the Reviewers
Magnus Edenhill is a freelance systems developer living in Stockholm,
Sweden, with his family. He specializes in high-performance distributed
systems but is also a veteran in embedded systems.
For ten years, Magnus played an instrumental role in the design and
implementation of PacketFront's broadband architecture, serving millions
of FTTH end customers worldwide. Since 2010, he has been running his
own consultancy business with customers ranging from Headweb—
northern Europe's largest movie streaming service—to Wikipedia.
Iuliia Proskurnia is a doctoral student at EDIC school of EPFL,
specializing in Distributed Computing. Iuliia was awarded the EPFL
fellowship to conduct her doctoral research. She is a winner of the
Google Anita Borg scholarship and was the Google Ambassador at KTH
(2012-2013). She obtained a Masters Diploma in Distributed Computing
(2013) from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, and UPC, Barcelona, Spain. For
her Master's thesis, she designed and implemented a unique real-time,
low-latency, reliable, and strongly consistent distributed data store for the
stock exchange environment at NASDAQ OMX. Previously, she has
obtained Master's and Bachelor's Diplomas with honors in Computer
Science from the National Technical University of Ukraine KPI. This
Master's thesis was about fuzzy portfolio management in previously
uncertain conditions. This period was productive for her in terms of
publications and conference presentations. During her studies in Ukraine,
she obtained several scholarships. During her stay in Kiev, Ukraine, she
worked as Financial Analyst at Alfa Bank Ukraine.